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Latin America is emerging strongly from the economic downturn, with trademark applications increasing. But, as Karen Bolipata reports, there are many issues to be discussed in today’s session on the region.

Professor Hargreaves makes several useful suggestions on reforming copyright law in his review, released today

The review of UK IP laws by Professor Ian Hargreaves makes several useful recommendations on updating copyright rules, but its one big idea seems not to consider overlap with existing proposals

Education is essential to winning the long term battle against fakes, said speakers at a session yesterday. “We have to teach consumers about the social harms associated with counterfeiting networks,” said Ed Kelly, of LaRiviere Grubman & Payne.

Judging by the enthusiastic note-taking of attendees at Monday’s Effective Oral Presentation session, we all need advice on public speaking.

With a House of Representatives floor vote on patent reform looming, lobbyists are working with Judiciary Committee and leadership staff to make last-minute modifications to the latest bill

While many concerns remain about the proposed launch of unlimited new gTLDs, it is not too early for brand owners to think about what their strategy should be.

Attendees yesterday indicated via red and green paddles whether or not they thought various hypotheticals posed a conflict for outside counsel, during an interactive session titled Ethics: Conflict Issues in Trademark Selection, Clearance and Prosecution. Audience members voted on whether they thought James Cady of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw & Pittman should bow out of representing one of the fictional companies seeking his help to register the same or similar marks. The hypothetical involved Veni Vidi Vision, which sought to register the mark SHAZOOM in the U.S., and BSquared, which owned the mark SHAZOOM in the U.S.

A US judge has denied a tattoo artist a preliminary injunction that would have delayed the launch of the film The Hangover II, which is planned for this Thursday.

China’s State Intellectual Property Office has launched a new patent search system that offers machine translations.